The 3,006-passenger Carnival Splendor isn’t just the largest “Fun Ship” ever constructed - it’s a true “floating resort” offering a host of innovative on-board amenities and facilities. Here’s a look at some of the many amazing facts associated with this massive vessel. In the first year of service alone:
- Carnival Splendor’s photographers will snap more than 1.5 million digital images and portraits
- Guests will devour 200,000 servings of Carnival’s signature dessert, the Chocolate Melting Cake, along with 286,000 pizzas and 120,000 cappuccinos
- Carnival Splendor will visit 61 ports of call in 29 countries across three continents
- Approximately 22,000 meals will be served in the elegant reservations-only supper club, The Pinnacle
- Chefs in the vessel’s galley will use of nearly 18,000 pounds of flour
- Nearly 90 metric tons of pineapples will be consumed, mostly in frothy tropical drinks!
- Stateroom stewards will place more than 2 million individual pieces of chocolate on guests’ pillows and create more than 548,000 of Carnival’s wildly popular “towel animals”
- Guests will indulge in 15,000-plus massages, nearly 8,000 facials, more than 5,000 slimming treatments, and some 2,000 personal fitness consultations in the Carnival Splendor’s luxurious “Cloud 9 Spa”